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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Aug 17

MEET THE CAST of None of That Was Real!

Don't ask them why they aren't friends anymore. They'll take that to the grave.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #M #T #NA

Poster of a dark haired young woman in a black leather jacket with sunglasses reflecting a sunset. TEXT: "Viv Locke as "Herself" NONE OF THAT WAS REAL! Now Querying"

Poster of a blonde-haired young woman in a silver gown with sunglasses reflecting palm trees. TEXT: "Luci Payne as "Herself" NONE OF THAT WAS REAL! Now Querying"

Poster of a dark haired young man in a yellow coat with sunglasses reflecting an aquarium. TEXT: "Benji Wright as "Himself" NONE OF THAT WAS REAL! Now Querying"

Poster of a dark haired young woman standing on a rooftop against a lit up skyline. She stares directly into the camera, wind blowing through her hair. This is the only poster the differs from the others.
TEXT: "Cassidy Carper as "Herself" NONE OF THAT WAS REAL! Now Querying"

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

Mine too!! It appears a couple of times actually because my characters are delusional 😌

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

Lol mine used to be None of This IS Real but I changed it to past tense. Good luck!

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

💜 IM GLAD MY MOM DIED x THE DAYDREAMS x KNIVES OUT 🧡

The mystery sit-com SOLVED! raised an entire generation of superfan detectives, whose skills are put to the test when the now grown-up cast finds themselves in a real-life murder mystery.🔎✨

#PosterPit #Q #M #T #NA

Cork Board covered in Polaroid pictures of three close friends (Vivian, Luci, and Benji), handwritten notes, medical toxicology report, magazine cutouts, an invitation to the reunion party, a newspaper reading "Cassidy Carper Dead At 27" and Post It Notes in blue, orange, purple, yellow, and green, reading "NONE OF THAT WAS REAL by Kayla Joy"

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

Meet Luci and Vivian: former child stars and ex-best friends.
One wants peace and quiet.
The other wants to stir up some drama before they're silenced forever by an industry that made them, tamed them, and chained them.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #M #T #NA #NOTWR

Rainbow/multi-colored background with pink hearts and lights/sunstreams onto a young dark haired woman at age 30, and another version of her at age 10, standing back to back. Text reads: "Viv Locke WAS Madelyn Calahan on Solved! Vivian Locke IS Washed Up in NONE OF THAT WAS REAL: A Kayla Joy Mystery, Now Querying"

Rainbow/multi-colored background with gold stars and lights/sunstreams onto a young blonde haired woman at age 30, and another version of her at age 10, standing back to back. Text reads: "Lucille Payne WAS Alexis Monroe on Solved! Luci Payne IS DEAD in NONE OF THAT WAS REAL: A Kayla Joy Mystery, Now Querying"

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Apr 19

"You put me on just for the show, then dropped me off the air." 💜🔍🧡🔍💙

At a cast reunion party celebrating 10 yrs since the finale of a beloved sitcom, a former child star announces a tell-all memoir, and is found dead in the morning.

#PosterPitQ #PosterPit #M #T #NA #A

Static Background with a TV set. Yellow Text reads: Ten years on the air, ten years since, best friends on screen, but behind the scenes NONE OF THAT WAS REAL! A novel by Kayla Joy Half Murder-Mystery, Half Tell-All Celebrity Memoir. NOW QUERYING in the trenches near you.

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Apr 19

"Was I just an alibi?" 💜🔍💙

Ten years after the finale of a beloved mystery sitcom, a cast reunion ends with the murder of a former child star, and the former fan-favorite it-couple are the primary suspects.

#PosterPit
#PosterPitQ #M #T #NA #A

Cartoon style poster depicting a press conference, a young couple standing in front of photographers and microphones. Behind them, text says NONE OF THAT WAS REAL.

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Apr 19

"Don't be such a drama queen." 💜🔍🧡 #PosterPitQ #M #T #NA #A #NOTWR

POSTER: Polaroids, maps, handwritten scraps of paper, and newspaper cut outs on top of a pink background.
"None of That Was Real"
A Mystery Thriller by Kayla Joy
Ten years after the finale of a beloved mystery sitcom, a cast reunion party ends with the murder of a former child star.
NOW QUERYING
Featuring...
90's-2010's Pop Culture, Complex Female Characters, Dual Timeline, Two Unreliable Narrators, Dual POV, Multi-Media Format, Former Child Stars All Grown Up, Co-stars-to-BFFs-to-Lovers-to-Enemies, Fake Dating Alibi, The Industry Pre-#MeToo, Swiftie References

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Apr 5

"We were all well-aware, even back then, that we were the luckiest kids on the planet. And never more so than in the final five minutes before this new normal began..."
#1stLinePit #Q #M #T #WF

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Apr 1

None of That Was Real but there's zero context #ChaosPit

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Apr 1

The target audience for this book is anyone addicted to the trivia section of IMDB. 🤡 #ChaosPit

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Apr 1

DID YOU SEE THE NEWS (don't worry, none of this is real 🙈) #ChaosPit

text chain from "ugly bestie"
L- dude
L- uhhhh?????
L- hold on I'm trying to find out if this is real
R- ??????
L- OH MY GOD ITS REAL
L- (Screenshot from TMZ reading Solved! Reunion Updates, Luci Payne, Former Solved Star, Dead Aged 30, Vivian Locke Hospitalized. Vivian Found Her Body)
R- WHAT?!?!?!????
L- It was apparently suicide????
R- I don't know if I believe that... Vivian discovered the body? That's kinda sus.
L- The police say they haven't ruled out foul play yet so it's plausible.
R- Oh but the irony of the Solved cast getting into a real murder mystery. (skull emojis)
End of Chat

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Mar 30

Friendly reminder that I officially #amquerying None of That Was Real, a fictional mystery novel about a fictional mystery sitcom, starring fictional child actors solving not one but TWO mysteries over 20 years
🔍🎥📰🌈✨️
#WritingCommunity

IMDB page for Solved! (fictional TV show)
Logline: "Following the wacky, supernatural, mysterious adventures of Madelyn Calahan, a teen detective, and her best friends as they solve life's littlest and biggest mysteries together.
CAST: Vivian Locke as Madelyn Calahan (pictured: Bruna Marquezine);
Benjamin Wright as Howie Hadid (pictured: Himesh Patel);
Luci Payne as Alexis Monroe (pictured: Florence Pugh);
Cassidy Carper as Heather Hadid (pictured: Jameela Jamil);
Zedediah Keith as Chad Whittle (pictured Kel Mitchell)

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Mar 28

Hiii tysm for liking my pitch! I actually queried you just yesterday! 🙈 it's under the title None of That was Real ☺️💜🧡

bsky.app/profile/kayl...

Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Mar 28

When your MCs have been booked and busy for 20 years and they don't need resumes anymore cause their reputation precedes them #UnhingedPit #A #T

IMDB page for fictional character Vivian Locke (pictured is Bruna Marquezine)

IMDB page for fictional character Luci Payne (pictured is Florence Pugh)

IMDB page for fictional character Benjamin Wright

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Mar 28

When your MCs have been booked and busy for 20 years and they don't need resumes anymore cause their reputation precedes them #UnhingedPit #A #T

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thank you! Subconsciously I already knew that but I just love my title so much. I'll probably still print my first copy with that title, for myself

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thank you!

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 13

aaaa thank youuuuu 🤭

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 13

KNIVES OUT x IM GLAD MY MOM DIED
10 yrs after the finale of a beloved mystery series, former child star Luci Payne throws a cast reunion party and announces a tell-all memoir. By morning, Luci is dead, her manuscript is missing, and everyone wants to solve it.

#questpit #MY #T #A

For all of the grief it caused us, for all of its lame jokes, and moments that make me cringe to rewatch, Solved! was the best thing that ever happened to me.
That said.
I will never return to that place. I will never play that role again. Not for all the money in the world.
When they ask me, (they never don’t ask me), I explain that the show ended in a good place, and that it seems wrong to ruin our beloved characters’ happy endings. Some people accept that answer, some others try to fight me on it and change my mind.
I didn’t want to tell anyone the real reason. Doing so felt like giving the internet permission to speculate, to go over my actions and words with a fine-toothed comb like they always do when they get a crumb of information. But the truth is, my experience on the show was damaging in a lot of ways, and I know I am not the only one.
Part of the reason Solved! was so beloved to begin with was the friendship between those kids seemed real, and that was because it was. The reality is, now, with all the time and animosity that has grown between us like weeds, the show could never be as authentic as it used to be, because we are not the same as we used to be.
There’s a reason we don’t talk anymore. There are about ten of them, really. Until recently, it always felt safer to avoid the truth.
It’s been twenty years since that first photo was taken, and ten years since the last. I found them both yesterday afternoon, buried at the bottom of a box in the corner of my attic labelled “BETTER OFF FORGOTTEN”, lying beneath deconstructed friendship bracelets, ticket stubs to Titanic and The Mummy, pressed-paper-flowers and crushed paper-fortunes. MASH games that said I’d be married to Heath Ledger by now, and we’d live inside of a yellow submarine. Birthday cards signed I’ll love you forever and Be Mine Valentines from someone I once knew everything about, but don’t anymore.
I paid the past a visit, and I can’t put those girls back in that box. They deser…

Moodboard for NONE OF THIS IS REAL by Kayla Joy:

Top left: back country road
Top center: notebook paper smeared with blood reading "I can't remember" repeated.
Top right: cliffside beach
Middle left: an actress on a red carpet surrounded by photographers
Middle center: a retro TV with a cartoon finale "The End", behind it, a bouquet of flowers and yellow wallpaper
Middle right: blurry wall of photographers with lenses and flashes
Bottom left: red sillouette of two women kissing
Bottom center: the backside of the Hollywood sign, and the sunset and skyline of LA
Bottom right: Cropped picture of Lindsay Lohan burning a tabloid about her.

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char 𖤓 @charyoung.bsky.social · Feb 12

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

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Megs is researching women’s history @megorra.bsky.social · Feb 12

Rediscover history’s young, forgotten female heroes in this educational and empowering standalone with series potential.
📜 Diverse histories
📜 Forgotten figures
📜 Inspiring women
#NF #Q #YA #QuestPit

Illustrated cover with designs of various women in historic cultural dress
A gold cover reads: An Agents Guide to: Remarkable Young Women

Illustrated full figures of young women from various cultures accompanied by text briefly describing their significance

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

(If you've already requested this I PROMISE i will be sending to betas soon and querying shortly after that. My standards are unbelievably high but so is my word count so revisions arent fully done yet 🧍‍♀️)

Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO x IM GLAD MY MOM DIED x KNIVES OUT

10 years after the finale of a beloved mystery/comedy series, a cast reunion party ends with the murder of a former child star.

#questpit #A #MY #T #q #NOTIR

Moodboard for None of This is Real by Kayla Joy:
Top left: screenshot from vintage Scooby Doo episode
Top center: rainbow lights with shadow of holding hands.
Top right: Hollywood sign at sunset (purple)
Middle row left: black and red text "Bad Idea" in various fonts
Middle center: purple and orange disco balls
Middle right: 3 police cars with lights on on the highway
Bottom left: a woman with a silver dress, cropped
Bottom center: two girls kissing in an aquarium
Bottom right: a vintage pink television set with a woman pictured and the text "Tell Me Your Deepest Darkest Secret"

It was all over.
The back door slid open and Viv wiped at her tears when she saw the reflections off Luci’s glittery gown. The door slid back closed, and Vivian didn’t turn to face her, but watched her shadow silhouette on the wall of the balcony.
“Soooo, are you spending the night out here now? Cause I can get you a sleeping bag if you want…” Luci’s voice said, a half-smile on her face that faded as Vivian turned to face her with a scold half-loaded.
“What the hell, man?” Vivian berated her. Luci sighed childishly and dropped her head back, looking up at the moon, and Vivian was almost certain she wasn’t listening to a word she said. “How could you?”
“How could I what, Viv?” Luci looked back at her with narrowed eyes. “Write my own life story, or tell you about it? I didn’t have to give you the heads up, you know. I kind of figured you’d react like this.”
That just made her angry again. “If you knew I’d react like this, then why would you do it?” Vivian asked with emphatic hand gestures she couldn’t control.
“I don’t…” Luci pouted her lip and puppied her eyes like she used to do as a kid and it always got her her way. Not tonight. “I thought you’d be happy to finally let it all out there. No more secrets. You can be honest, for once in your life.” Vivian clocked that for the insult it was and scoffed to hide the fact that she didn’t have a reply. Luci stepped forward, reaching out to take Vivian’s hand, her long and cold acrylics brushing against her palms. The touch made her chest ache like she poked a scar that never properly healed.
“Please,” Luci said, almost whispering, “I would not have done this if I thought it was a bad idea. I can’t believe that after all this time, you still believe I would ever hurt you.”

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Kayla Joy 🌻 @kaylajoyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 5

Does imposter syndrome ever go away 🫠

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Jan 19

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